Here’s an ARM duo to digest this fine morning — ARM’s president (and co-founder) Tudor Brown has announced that he’ll be retiring in May after serving slightly over a score with the corporate. His final day could be May 3rd of next year, with Chairman Doug Dunn confessing that Brown had played “a vital role within the creation and successful development of ARM over the last 21 years and has made a huge contribution in a variety of positions.” Oddly enough, an organization spokesperson has stated that ARM has “no plans at this stage to switch Mr. Brown,” though we suspect which may change because the date draws closer.
In additional product-related news, the company’s forthcoming (and by “forthcoming,” we mean “perhaps by the tip of 2013″) Mali-T658 GPU should provide a 10x improvement in performance over the prevailing Mali-400. In accordance with a slide hosted up over at AnandTech, it’ll offer double the shader cores per GPU, twice the arithmetic pipes per shader core and “extensive” API support. For those unaware, the Mali-400 MP4 is a genuine barnburner for the Android platform, and on the grounds that the T658 can scale to 8 cores, we’re guessing you’ve got just made your mind up about timing in your next smartphone purchase. Hit the links below to dig in deeper, but remember — 2013 is set an eternity from now. Depressing, we all know.
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